Spotlight on Reviews

4 Stars

For Shakespeare aficionados, Promethean Theatre Ensemble has done a tremendous job in their performance of William Shakespeare’s “Richard III” at Chicago’s Factory Theater.

**** Recommended ****  "Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations" isn’t your typical jukebox musical, it’s more of an ‘icon-ography’ – the biography of a rock group.  The Temptations, with their smooth moves and mellow sound, were – and still are – rock ‘n roll royalty.  Still, the Temptations are just men, with lives and problems and bills to pay, almost like the rest of us.  "Ain’t Too Proud" lays it all out there, the good, the bad and the really ugly – against the best music of the ‘60s, ‘70s, and more.  4 Spotlights

5 Stars! Highly Recommended!  Exceptional and poignant, “Rasheeda Speaking” is a four-person tragicomedy, based on the late Joel Drake Johnson’s well-crafted script. The dialogue—sad, funny, and very real at the same time—is so well performed that you feel as if you could enter the stage yourself and interact with each of the characters in a real doctor’s office.

**** Recommended **** Each of the plays in August Wilson’s ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle, which chronicles African-American experiences, is set in a different decade of the twentieth century. "Two Trains Running", which opened at the Court Theatre last week, set during the sixties, examines the disruption caused by urban renewal in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, a once thriving African American neighborhood.  It is thought-provoking, poignant and yet laugh-out-loud funny.  4 Spotlights